Alison Hill
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 3, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Writer's Digest
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 11, 2026
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How Journalists Find the Deeper (or New) Story (opens the original)
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Powerful journalism delivers something fresh and meaningful: new information, unique perspectives, and untold personal stories. Finding material to produce this type of work requires curiosity, persistence, and discipline. The following journalistic methods and strategies can help transform a familiar topic into an original (new) and more focused (deeper) piece. It could even lead you to that elusive scoop. An angle in journalism is how you approach a story, the theme or point of view that guide
How Investigation Leads to Creativity and Engagement as a Journalist (opens the original)
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In journalism, investigating a story can often feel like walking into a thrift store—you just never know what treasures you’ll find lurking at the back of a bottom shelf, something other pickers missed. In thrifting terms it could be a profitable item, in journalism it could mean a scoop. As a journalist you want to tell the story that’s never been told, tackle an existing storyfrom a fresh angle, or humanize a topical issue in a unique way. You must find those hidden gems that others overlook.
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